Environmental Education in the Amazon during a Pandemic Period

Abstract

The Amazon is a region of superlatives, with continental dimensions, which spreads across all the countries of northern South America. Its multiple cultural, environmental and biological nuances are only partially known, a fact that markedly limits the necessary physical interventions of the region. It is necessary to consider that more than twenty-five million people live in the Brazilian part of the Amazon and are the real responsible for its conservation, and, in part, for its revelation in the current times. The world has been experiencing significant environmental changes, with different reflexes, sometimes accentuating the magnitude of natural events, sometimes reducing their effects.  This research seeks to develop elements that contribute to understand the causes and consequences of extreme climatic events in the Amazon in a pandemic Covid-19 period and to verify possible causes and consequences of fires and drought in the Amazon through robust analysis of the available data, starting from of a wide bibliographic review, to identify the critical factors, proposing a reflection on these concerns that must be considered in the decision-making processes related to the conservation, mitigation and adaptation to the effects of the fires, of the climatic changes, which should be accentuated in the coming times.